The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-11-18

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she snid that it would be better to let the
fever spend its course as much as possible
before she cured 1t. Accordingly I was
rising to leave, when she babe me follow
her, as she would talk with me, and show
me the wonders Of the " II
I was too much involved in the web OF
her fatal destinations to say her no, even II
I had wished to, which I did not. She rose
from her chair, and making some signs to
the mutes, descended from the dais.
Thereon four of the girls took lamps, and
ranged themselves two in front and two
behind us, but the others went away.
"Now," she said, "wouldst thou see some
Of the wonders of this place, oh, Holly
Look upon this great a Saw ye ever
the like? Yet was IT, and many moro like
1t, followed by the hands of the dead race
that once lived here in the city on the
plain. A great and a wonderful people
must they have been. these men of Kor:
but, like the Egyptians, they thought more
of the dead than the living. How many
men, think ye, working for how many
years, did it require to hollow out this.
cave and all the galleries thereof"
"Tens of thousands" I answered.
$50, oh, Holly. This people was an old
people before the Egyptians were. A little
can I read of their inscriptions, having
found the key theretoy0nd. see here, this
was one Of the last OF I4AMsstlat they,
dug" and turning 10 the rockAa 1F
she motioned thaxputes to hold xtht
APPS. CarvepsYvgF the dais wasy
ure Of an old mi assted in a chair With
an iylIy rod in aaAE hand: = struck me
that Is features ee1ipgly
beilT eml jlmed in.the chamhesv
too to- \ ms RS1eta11 fes!sGE
msnslk 3 : ssals isssl -
oxen, but which I do nd0sfD
d hcient Of to illustrate. It looked
n6fe like Chinese writing than any other
|0Sn acquainted with: $rhis inscrip-
lAy@ha proceeded, with some difficult
late Fellows:
and %ffty-nine Ism the founding Of the
Of Imperial Kor was this cave Tor bur.
Slace) completed by Tfsno. King OF Kor,
people thereof and their slaves having
ored thereat for three generations, to
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sail come after. May the blessing Of the
Heaven above the Heaven rest upon their
work, and make the sleep Of Tisno. the
mighty monarch, the likeness of whose
features is craven above, a sound and hap
py sleep till the day Of awakening" (this
phrase is remarkable, as seeming to indi.
cate a belief in a future state.-Editorl and
also the sleep of his servants, and Of those
of his race who, rising up after him. shall
yet lay their heads as lowl"
''Thou seest, oh, Holly" she said. ''thll
people founded the city. Of which the ruins
yet cumber the plain yonder, four thousand
years before this ave was finished. Yet
when first I saw It, two thousand years
ago, was It ever ~ It Is now. Judge.
therefore, how old must the place have
beeni And now follow thou me, and
will show thee after what fashion thil
great city fell when the time wa come fol
It to fall" and she led the way down ID
the center Of the cave. and stopped at {
spot where . round rock had been let into
. sort Of large man-hole in tho flooring, &C
curately filling It Just q the iron plates ID
the spaces In the London pavements down
which the Goals are thrown. s.Thous ssst,'
she said. s'Ten M. what Il iti""